Barcelona: It's been an ongoing record-breaking race between two of the world's biggest football stars, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo ever since they broke onto the global stage nearly two decades ago. And yesterday Messi went a step or make that two, ahead of his Portuguese rival. The mercurial Argentine scored a brace in Barcelona's 5-1 win over Valladolid in a La Liga encounter and in doing so, went past Ronaldo's club goals record.

Ronaldo has scored 606 goals in total for four teams — Sporting Lisbon, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus — in 813 matches. Messi's two strikes saw him take his goal tally to 608 goals in just 695 matches. And all the goals have come with Spanish giants Barcelona. Though Messi didn't wish to speak about goal-scoring record after the big win at Camp Nou, Barcelona manager Ernesto Valverde couldn't stop praising his star striker.